Company Profile
Foster + Freeman design and manufacture market-leading systems for the forensic examination of questioned documents, the detection and enhancement of latent fingerprints, and for the elemental analysis of trace evidence including glass fragments, suspect fibres, illicit drugs, gunshot residues, and other materials of forensic interest.
Established in 1978, Foster + Freeman Ltd. has become one of the foremost forensic science equipment suppliers in the world, exporting market leading, and in many cases unique products from its modern manufacturing facility in Evesham, Worcestershire, to more than 170 countries worldwide.
Prominent end-users include the Ministry of Defence, New Scotland Yard and the Met Police, the FBI, CIA, the US Army, the Chinese Frontier Police, the German Landeskriminalamt, the Italian Carabinieri, INTERPOL, BORDERPOL, and the International Organisation for Migration.
Forensic Technology
Foster + Freeman forensic science products assist in the detection, capture and examination of evidence at crime the crime scene and to perform thorough analysis of fingerprints, body fluids and other traces of evidence in the laboratory.
The company manufactures several ‘traditional’ forensic science products, including fingerprint fuming cabinets and ultra-bright narrowband LED light sources, but is better know for its development of new and novel technologies.
In recent years, the company has received awards for innovation from ADS and Loughborough University, for its development of landmark fingerprint visualisation techniques including RECOVER, a unique system that enables examiners to visualise fingermarks on fired bullet casings and metallic items that have been purposely washed ‘clean’.
Document Examination Technology
Our VSC range of products is designed to assist in the examination and authentication of questioned documents.
VSC customers include all major police and forensic science laboratories, government agencies, customs and excise, border patrol and immigration as well as in banks, casinos, and specific fraud detection departments of insurance and benefits offices.
Foster + Freeman products include:
VSC, Questioned Document Examination systems
Crime-lite, a range of LED Forensic Light Sources
MVC Fingerprint Fuming Cabinets
DCS Forensic Fingerprint Photography System